North Korean officials did not turn up to a Thursday meeting with the U.S. military about repatriating the remains of the war dead, according to a U.S. official with knowledge of the situation.

The two sides had been expected to meet at the Korean Peninsula’s demilitarized zone and discuss the return of U.S. troop remains from the 1950-1953 war — an arrangement the State Department had announced after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to Pyongyang last Friday and Saturday.

On Thursday, however, Department of Defense and United Nations Command officials were left waiting in the DMZ’s Joint Security Area. The expected North Korean officials never arrived, according to the official who requested anonymity as he was not permitted to talk publicly about the event.

“We were ready,” the official said. “It just didn’t happen. They didn’t show.”

To save a little face Mike Pompeo suggested that they did not necessarily set a firm date, but then one would have to wonder why officials for both the Department of Defense and the UN Command would drop everything and show up?

The date is now supposedly set for July 15. Well, maybe.

There are also numerous news accounts stating that North Korea continues to work on their nuclear weapons program despite Trump’s assertion that he handled all of that.

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““And fortunately, we tend to record stories now, so we have it for your enjoyment if you’d like it, but we record when we deal with reporters,” he continued. “It’s called fake news. We solve a lot of problems with the good old recording instrument.”

The interview Trump and the BBC editor were referencing took place earlier in the week, was recorded, and had the president on record saying newly-resigned UK Independence Party leader Boris Johnson — May’s erstwhile political rival — would make “a great prime minister.” Trump also said the prime minister “wrecked” Brexit after he told her how to do it, and again attacked London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Europe generally for allowing migrants and “terrorists” into their borders.”

“First question from @bbclaurak about how he treated May in interview, blasting her Brexit policy: “I didn’t criticize the prime minister.” Then, @realDonaldTrump takes next step of calling The Sun “fake news.” The Murdoch-owned Sun that is…”
“Trump is calling quotes he said — that there is audio of — are fake news.” “He did it. He really did it. Donald Trump called his ON THE RECORD (which was recorded) interview with The Sun “fake news”.”

‘“We are cracking down right now on the European Union because they have not treated the United States fairly on trading,” he told The Sun. “No, if they would do that I would say that that would probably end a major trade relationship with the United States.”’ OK?!

“Trump may have unwittingly revealed the source of his hostility, confessing that the planned protests across Britain—which began loudly outside every venue Trump attended on Thursday—had hurt his feelings.

“I used to love London as a city. I haven’t been there in a long time. But when they make you feel unwelcome, why would I stay there?””

Beaglemom
July 13, 2018 at 8:02 am

Trump has hurt “the feelings” of just about every sentient being on Planet Earth since his inauguration. I have no sympathy for him or for the third wife.

anonymous
July 13, 2018 at 7:28 am

““I give our relationship with the U.K., in terms of a grade, the highest level of special,” he said later, repeatedly emphasizing his personal ties to the U.K. ― his mother was born in Scotland ― and how much time he has spent with May this week.

Although Trump had said earlier that May’s policies might kill U.S.-British trade deals, he suggested on Friday that he would accept whatever deal as long as “we can trade together.”

“I think she’s doing a tremendous job,” Trump said of May, insisting that he’d said “tremendous things” during the Sun interview.

In his opening remarks, he also turned to May and told her that “whatever you’re gonna do, it’s OK with us,” backpedaling on earlier remarks slamming her.”

” Trump calling May “a very good person.” He is also quoted as saying: “I think she is a nice person. I get along with her very nicely.”” “Trump maligned the so-called “fake news” multiple times during the press conference. At one point, he refused to take a question from CNN’s Jim Acosta, before calling on Fox News correspondent John Roberts.

“Let’s go to a real network,” Trump said.

When a Sun reporter at Friday’s news conference pointed out that the paper did publish Trump’s positive remarks about May, Trump said: “Oh, good. If you reported it, that’s good.”

He then complained that “they didn’t put it in the headline. I wish they put it in the headline.””<NICE

a “carnival of resistance” “The blimp was intended as a symbol to show the president that “the U.K. sees him as a petulant, vicious, self-obsessed child,” ”
” The primary “Stop Trump” march is set to culminate in a rally in Trafalgar Square ― the site of gargantuan protests against then-President George W. Bush in 2003.”

‘“It’s embarrassing how much our government is falling over themselves to try to appease someone who has no interest in any sort of give-and-take in the UK-U.S. relationship at all, and is so capricious he can change his mind between the end of one tweet and the start of the next one,” ‘

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg joins Christiane Amanpour from Brussels to discuss the aftermath of Wednesday’s summit and controversy over spending commitments from European nations. Then, former head of the British Foreign Office Simon Fraser reacts to President Trump’s first day in the UK.

” what feels different now is that Trump is not only adopting the language and ideology of Europe’s far-right leaders—arguably going farther than what many of them are willing to say in public—but is also directly inserting himself into other countries’ domestic, partisan disputes.” “We’ve known for some time that Trump shares the ideology of Europe’s far right and its hostility to the European political establishment. But now he appears to be working in concert with these radicals to undermine that establishment.”

““It allows him to make his point that Russia is not isolated, that Russia is a great power, and to some extent can even claim an equal status with the United States, at least in the security field,” said Kortunov.”
“described Trump on state TV on the day the summit was agreed as “a neophyte in world politics” to whom Putin could explain Russian thinking and why Russia was right to annex CRIMEa”!
“Sergei Mironov, a senior lawmaker from the pro-Kremlin Just Russia party, said in another political talk show that Putin would definitely have the upper hand in Helsinki.

“… Vladimir Putin will give a real master class to the inexperienced politician Donald Trump,”” “Nikonov said Trump was now strong enough to pursue his own agenda.

“It’s one of the signs that the wind is blowing in our sails, thanks in large part to Trump,” he said. “I don’t remember any pro-Russian (U.S.) presidents, but I want to remind you that he (Trump) is one of the most pro-Russian politicians at the moment in the United States.””
“Moscow had seen how Trump had received other leaders on home soil, showing footage of Trump holding Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s hand in a vice-like grip, brushing dandruff off French President Emmanuel Macron’s shoulder and glowering next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel.”<BERN!

Anonymous
July 13, 2018 at 7:16 am

Here’s why Trump tries so hard to be on Putin’s good side — and it has nothing to do with politics

…What could be motivating Trump’s largesse toward Russia? It’s hard to argue that it’s what’s best for America. A pattern of reported facts suggest it could be personal financial gain.

…“America first” ideology has actually put Russia first. Leaving the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Iran nuclear deal and Paris Climate Agreement lost America international forums where it communicated, led and influenced. Cutting the State Department’s budget and foreign aid weakened America’s global clout and allowed Putin to expand Russia’s sphere of influence.

Trump’s threat to cut aid to Central America damaged trust in the U.S. Now Putin is providing aid there, reopening military bases and building a satellite-tracking station that could spy on the U.S. Trump’s rejection of Obama’s soft Cuba policy may result in a repeat of Cuba’s pivot to Russia after Dwight Eisenhower rejected Cuban efforts for diplomatic and trade ties. Trump’s trade tariffs and insults of EU and Canadian leaders threatens relationships with our closest allies. His escalating criticism of NATO make some worry the United States might actually leave the alliance – the ultimate gift to Putin.

Congressional Republicans are muting their nervousness about Trump giving away the store, settling for bromides about how there’s nothing wrong with just talking to Russia. It’s hard to imagine how talking under these conditions will serve America’s interest, but on the other hand, we may finally see Trump Tower built in Moscow. In keeping his stakes in 500 foreign businesses — no other president had any – Trump has unprecedented cause to tailor foreign policy for personal gain. He promised to “drain the swamp,” but there are more reptiles in it than ever, and many speak Russian.

The Trump administration’s kidnapping — that’s the proper word — of the children of would-be migrants should be seen as an ongoing criminal conspiracy. Somebody ought to go to jail.

…Remember what this is really about. The main flow of undocumented migrants consists of Hondurans, Guatemalans and Salvadorans seeking to escape rampant, deadly gang violence that their home governments cannot or will not check. The Trump administration issued new instructions on Wednesday to officers who interview asylum seekers at the border, telling them that fear of gang violence, no matter how well-founded, is no longer grounds for asylum. The same new guidance applies to immigration judges, who take their orders from Sessions.

Kidnapping children. Failing even to account for them. Sending families home to be killed. Give us your huddled masses, this administration seems to say, and let us kick them in their little faces.

…Heat wave records have been falling at an astonishing rate in recent days around the country and around the globe. The brutal heat has spurred wildfires, water shortages, asthma attacks, power emergencies, and the like.

In many cases, the records were not simply beaten, they were obliterated. As NOAA reported in Southern California, where temperature records go back 140 years, records for July 6 were disintegrated by 14°F in downtown Los Angeles and Camarillo, and by 16°F in San Luis Obispo.

“China’s trade surplus with the United States, which is at the center of the tariff tussle, widened to a record monthly high of $28.97 billion, up from $24.58 billion in May, according to Reuters calculations based on official data going back to 2008.

The record surplus “won’t help already sour relations and escalating tensions”” “The dispute has jolted global financial markets, raising worries a full-scale trade war could derail the world economy. “

Anonymous
July 13, 2018 at 12:09 pm

I read somewhere that there won’t be any tariffs on Ivanka clothing line, so much for buy American make American crap he told his supporters

Anonymous
July 13, 2018 at 8:35 am

12 Russian Intelligence Officers Indicted In Robert Mueller Investigation
The charges are connected to the hacking of the DNC during the 2016 campaign.

A grand jury convened by special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian intelligence officials in connection with the hack of a DNC server during the 2016 election.

All 12 of the defendants were connected to GRU, a Russian Federation intelligence agency within the Russian military.

Defendants registered the domain “DCLeaks.com” and falsely claimed to be “American hacktivists.” They used Facebook and Twitter to promote the website.

Now trump is backtracking ( what a surprise) and said it will take awhile to get NK to give up their nuclear weapons. Gosh, didn’t he tell us he personally saved the world from NK nukes and we could sleep at night?